compressed

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“His transfer came a few months earlier, not a few days earlier. The contours of the relationships between Stagg and Krick and the others are accurate, but they took place in a more compressed timeline.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Memory is a historically cyclical industry, which has kept Sandisk’s multiple compressed.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

That’s because GPA has become so compressed that distinction is increasingly challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Aslef has agreed to the voluntary compressed four-day week, saying it gives participating drivers an extra 35 days off a year "in return for some fairly minor changes to working conditions".

From BBC • May 18, 2026

But an observer at B sees the waves as stretched out, while an observer at A sees them as compressed.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan